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Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management – Artfinder, MainStreet Partners, Others
Editorial Staff
12 January 2023
Artfinder MainStreet Partners He will lead the growth and technology strategy of ESGeverything, MainStreet Partners’ ESG platform, the firm said in a statement. The platform is an ESG audit tool providing investors with the means to assess portfolios of funds, ETFs, equities, corporate bonds, government bonds, and green and social bonds. Prior to MainStreet Partners, Cullinan worked as the global head of architecture at Intelliflo (a subsidiary of Invesco), a wealth management platform in the UK, the firm continued. His background is in software development, system design, and operations. He will lead the ongoing process of digitisation to meet the demands of MainStreet’s client base and stay ahead of market and regulatory developments. Cullinan's primary role will be to coordinate all the engineering and product development of the new MainStreet Partners’ platform: ESGeverything.com, the firm said. Rothschild & Co Based in Zurich, he will be in charge of promoting UBP’s private markets offering to answer institutional clients’ needs including establishing new institutional strategic partnerships, the firm said in a statement. He will work with Brice Thionnet, UBP’s global head of private markets, and report directly to Nicolas Faller, co-CEO of asset management and head of institutional clients. He is joining UBP after more than 12 years of service to Partners Group where he was a member of management in charge of client solutions for European institutional clients. Prior to joining Partners Group in 2010, he started his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse in 2005, the firm continued.
Online art marketplace has appointed a digital entrepreneur, Joshna Rughani (pictured), as its new CEO. She is taking the helm from Michal Szczesny who left last year.
Glen Collins has been holding the slot as interim CEO.
Rughani, who has worked for Red Letter Days for a decade, guiding the retailer from being a catalogue business to primarily an online enterprise, became its first head of e-commerce. She has since worked as head of digital at VCCP Media, leading a team of 25 digital specialists across a range of disciplines, from SEO to paid social, before returning to an in-house role with Artfinder. Artfinder is a B Corp business focused on supporting independent artists.
In its statement about the appointment, Artfinder said it has seen 140 per cent sales growth since pre-pandemic 2019, buoyed by the shift from in-person to online auctions. The global online art market almost tripled in size to $13.5 billion in 2021, according to the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report. (That report also noted that 84 per cent of art industry players think the digital shift in the art market will become permanent, up from 51 per cent in 2020.)
Artfinder is a startup backed by the investors behind Spotify and Zoopla. Investors include Wellington Partners, Oxford Capital, Cambridge Angels, plus private investors in the UK, the US and Switzerland.
, the London-based ESG advisory and portfolio analytics firm, this week hired Intelliflo's former head of global architecture Stuart Cullinan as chief technology officer.
announced this week that Christophe Gantenbein had joined the bank in January as global head of private markets institutional solutions.